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ICE agents will be patrolling San Francisco during the Super Bowl in February, whether halftime performer Bad Bunny likes it or not. Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski confirmed that the agents will have a presence at America's biggest event after the 31-year-old pop star snubbed the US during his tour over fears ICE would target fans outside his shows. 'It’s so shameful they picked someone who seems to hate America,' Lewandowski said. 'There is nowhere you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and no where else. We will find and deport...

When federal agents led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a South Shore residential building early yesterday, it understandably raised eyebrows. So what was that all about? And why was that particular building targeted? On Tuesday night, Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) claimed on Twitter that the Venezuela-based street gang Tren de Aragua was behind it. “TdA’s took over the building,” Lopez wrote, adding, “they will not be missed — except by @ChicagosMayor & the Leftinos!” In fact, CWBChicago has learned the building raided by the feds was the site of a murder where a migrant was shot dead while...

More than 200 Border Patrol agents descended on a Chicago Home Depot parking lot early Thursday morning in a sweeping immigration enforcement action under President Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz. The operation marked one of the largest federal deployments yet in the crackdown on criminal illegal aliens shielded by Chicago’s sanctuary policies. The early morning sweep of the home improvement store parking lot was conducted like operations that have been underway in Los Angeles in recent months. The Border Patrol agents participating in the operation are volunteers from stations around the country. The agents are detailed for an undetermined amount of...

More than 100 demonstrators surround ICE vehicles as roofers refuse to come down from rooftop. A dramatic standoff in upstate New York between immigration agents, roofers and protesters ended with officials leaving the scene with slashed tires Tuesday. The confrontation happened at a residential job site where one worker was detained and others refused to come down from a rooftop in Rochester’s Park Avenue area. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies arrived at the sanctuary city home to carry out a removal operation of the suspected illegal immigrants. One roofer was...

CATO, N.Y. -- Federal agents forced open the doors of a snack bar manufacturer and took away dozens of workers in a surprise enforcement action that the plant's co-owner called “terrifying.” Video and photos taken at the Nutrition Bar Confectioners plant Thursday showed numerous law enforcement vehicles outside the plant and workers being escorted from the building to a Border Patrol van. Immigration agents ordered everyone to a lunchroom, where they asked for proof the workers were in the country legally, according to one 24-year-old worker who was briefly detained.

The fertile soil of American manufacturing has attracted billions in foreign investment over the past decade, promising to revive industrial heartlands from Michigan to Georgia. Like any garden, however, this economic renaissance requires careful tending—and sometimes the removal of weeds that threaten to choke out legitimate growth. Here’s the thing about these grand promises of foreign partnership: they sound wonderful until you dig beneath the surface and discover what’s actually growing there. The Hyundai Motor Group facility in Ellabell, Georgia, stretches across 3,000 acres of what was once sleepy farmland twenty miles outside Savannah. This $4.3 to $7.6 billion joint...

CBS Chicago CONFIRMS Trump isn’t just targeting criminals in Chicago, he’s planning a massive immigration raid ‼️ “Sources confirm to CBS News that that could include armored trucks, federal troops and ICE agents flooding the city.“ “Breaking news, there is word from Washington that the Trump administration is planning to conduct a major immigration enforcement operation right here in Chicago” Say goodbye to Democrat’s illegal voters in Chicago!

Latinos make up more than half of Oxnard’s 202,000 residents, and they have long taken pride in helping to build this sprawling city by the sea.Constructed around the same agriculture fields where Cesar Chavez organized migrant laborers before establishing the United Farm Workers of America, Oxnard is a place where Latino influence is omnipresent — from music festivals to eateries. At City Hall, officials have made it a priority to protect the area’s immigrant residents and workforce — whether that involves bolstering tenant rights against predatory landlords, or joining a civil rights lawsuit against indiscriminate raids.But a summer of immigration...

When news hit last week that federal agents had raided John Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington office, the reaction was as predictable as it was hysterical. The left immediately leapt into hysterics, spinning the story as proof of Trump’s alleged obsession with revenge, tying it to Bolton’s bitter falling-out with him. Within hours, the usual chorus was screeching the same tired lines: Democracy is under attack! Trump is a dictator! This was pure political retribution! Only it wasn’t. A new report from—if you can believe it—the New York Times has thrown cold water on that absurd little storyline. According to...

The FBI recently raided the home of John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-outspoken Trump critic, seizing documents allegedly tied to classified material. From Bolton’s role in the Trump administration to prior warnings from a federal judge about his handling of sensitive information and why the DOJ under Biden dropped its earlier investigation, Victor Davis Hanson unpacks the full backstory behind the raid on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

FBI agents raided the Maryland home and Washington, DC office of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton Friday morning in a high-profile probe of allegations that he sent “highly sensitive” classified documents to his family from a private email server while working in the White House.Federal investigators went to Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post. Agents later went to Bolton’s office in downtown DC, but did not enter until a judge signed a warrant for that location late Friday morning.“NO...

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The FBI raided the D.C.-area home of former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton on Friday.According to the New York Post’s Caitlin Doornbos, who initially broke the story, “Federal agents went to Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post.” Per Fox News, agency officials were later spotted at Bolton’s Washington, D.C. office “removing boxes and Bolton was seen in the lobby.”Patel seemingly confirmed the raid in an early Friday morning post. At roughly the same time the raid reportedly took place, the FBI...

Sometime around noon today the “elbow’s up” team is expected to publicly take a knee. In the interim President Trump takes questions from media about ongoing events. WATCH:

FBI agents raided the home of former national security adviser John Bolton early Friday as part of a high-profile national security investigation. A source confirmed to Newsmax that the investigation is focused on the handling of classified documents and national security secrets. The raid began around 7 a.m. ET at Bolton's residence in Bethesda, Maryland, and was ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel. FBI Director Kash Patel, who in a 2023 book he wrote included Bolton in a list of "members of the Executive Branch Deep State," posted on X: "NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission."...

he FBI has raided the Maryland home of Trump’s former National Security Adviser, John Bolton. On Friday morning, at 7 a.m., FBI agents raided Bolton’s Bethesda, Maryland, home in an investigation that FBI Director Kash Patel is leading. The investigation is reportedly linked to a classified documents probe years ago, but was later shut down under the Biden administration. LOOK: BREAKING: Federal agents are RIGHT NOW in John Bolton’s home “going through things” following an early morning FBI RAID in the DC area over national security concerns. Yes. We did, indeed, vote for this. This is Bolton’s primary residence. “This...

A man was struck and killed by a SUV Thursday after running from a federal immigration enforcement operation at a Home Depot in Monrovia, according to authorities and witnesses. The immigration enforcement activity was reported to Monrovia police just before 10 a.m. An officer then saw federal agents approaching the home improvement store on Mountain Avenue. During the operation, someone ran from the scene, crossed Evergreen Avenue and entered the eastbound 210 Freeway, said Monrovia City Manager Dylan Feik. CHP officers said they received a report just before 10 a.m. that someone had been hit by a SUV on the...

Federal agents raided a car wash in Culver City on Tuesday, taking into custody eight people there and nearly 30 overall in the Los Angeles area, according to reports. Handy J Car Wash at 12681 Washington Blvd. was targeted alongside a Home Depot and several other sites. ... In a statement, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said it was “a targeted immigration raid … that resulted in the arrest of eight illegal aliens from Honduras and Mexico.” She identified several of those arrested as well. “Esteban Leal-Ramirez illegally entered the country TWICE in 2007 and has been...

SummaryRaids at farms ensnare migrants who lived in the U.S. for decades One detained migrant said an agent in military garb hit him on the head, threatened him with gun DHS said 185,000 people have been deported from the U.S. this year Aug 12 (Reuters) - Yahir remembers growing up in Mexico without a bed or a stove. He didn’t own a pair of shoes until he was 10, and in the mid-1990s — when he was 13 — he crossed with a group illegally into the U.S. in search of work. He settled in California and worked on farms...

Federal agents detained day laborers outside of a Home Depot in Van Nuys during two raids Friday morning, raising questions over whether their actions may violate a court order that bans agents from using racial profiling to carry out indiscriminate immigration arrests.The operations took place around 7:35 a.m. and then again at 11:50 a.m. outside the Home Depot on Roscoe Boulevard, according to Maegan Ortiz, executive director of Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California, which runs a resource center for day laborers directly next to the store. The Department of Homeland Security, which includes Customs and Border Protection...